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Down Home Healthy Cooking: Recipes and tips for healthy cooking
    Posted: 10/31/2007
Fruit Salad

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Fruit Salad

Nutrition Content
Per Serving
Makes 6 Servings

calories: 313
total fat: 9.20g
saturated fat: 7.72g
carbohydrates: 61.21g
protein: 3.71g
cholesterol: 0mg
sodium: 10mg
dietary fiber: 9.31g

Ingredients

1 lb seedless black grapes

6 medium red apples

1 pint strawberries

6 medium oranges

16-ounce can of fruit cocktail, packed in juice

1 cup coconut (shredded)

Preparation

Wash all fresh fruits well. Slice grapes. Slice strawberries and remove stems. Peel orange, slice and remove seeds and membranes, and cut into bitesize pieces. Peel apples, remove core, and cut into small pieces. Combine fruit in large bowl.

Add fruit cocktail.

Stir until all fruit is mixed. Level the top and sprinkle coconut. Chill. Serve.

Fruits and vegetables provide many important vitamins, like vitamin A and vitamin C. There are about 20 vitamins needed for life. The best way to get them is to eat the fruits and vegetables that contain them.



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